Install a Python package into a different director

Question

I know the obvious answer is to use virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper, but for various reasons I can't/don't want to do that.

So how do I modify the command

pip install package_name

to make pip install the package somewhere other than the default site-packages?

Answer 1

Nobody seems to have mentioned the -t option but that the easiest:

pip install -t <direct directory> <package>